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4 THE HOOD RIVER NEWS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4. 1912 THE HOOD RIVER NEWS ruauaacD wsdnmday hobnino it MOOD RIVUR NKWS COMPANY, Inc. Hood Rivra. Okbooh It B. BENNETT Edito L. i, BENNETT BusiNsaa UiKiun Subscription, $1.50 Year In Advance Entarad aa ootid -class aiatur. Feb. 10. ISO, at the post attica at Hood Hirer. Oraron. andar tha Act of March 1. 187. THOSE ENGLISH SUFFRAGETTES Pity aud disdain arc both due to the perverted Kngliah suffragettes from their more sensible sisters In this country. Americans, regardless of ex, can be profoundly thankful that the disgraceful and lawless acts perpe trated by the fanatical Englishwomen have not occurred here. It Is difficult for a reasonable man or women to comprehend the motives for the utterly senseless acts which are being reported of the English suf fragettes. Wanton distruction of the mail by pouring infiamable materials into the boxes and then dropping in matches has been only one of a series of similar acts. In the phraseology of the plains, the English suffragettes have apparently become "plumb lo coed." What conceivable benefits they can expect to bring their cause through such waspish acts is incon ceivable. Thanksgiving Day is pass ed, but it is not too late for every pa triotic American man and woman to offer up devout thanks that the char acter of the American woman, foster ed by free institutions and a wider po litical horizon, has made her superior to such acts of fanaticism. LOCAL CHURCH FEDERATION More than usual interest in the sub ject of church federation has been aroused here of late aa a result of the signing of the articles of federation by the Baptist church on the Heights and by another at Odell. These are now Included in the federation which also comprises the two churches which for merly existed as separate organiza tions at M osier. Rev. John R. Har- greaves, who came to Hood River three years ago from Iowa City to serve as pastor of the local Baptist church, is responsible for the move ment towards federation and it is largely through his efforts that the several churches have allied them selves with the federation. While members of the different de nominations join the federation, each retains its distinctive denominational name and no one is asked to give up his or her denominational views or preferences, but on the other hand to federate in church and Christian effort for the extension of the Christian cause in the respective communities on the highest and most efficient plan This plan is designed to decrease the number of churches that are strug ling along to enlarge their respective denomination and paying pastors' sal aries upon which they can scarcely maintain a livelihood. It is also calcu lated to decrease the number of preachers and place strong men in charge in even the smaller towns. Added impetus is given this move ment through the fact that increased liberality of relfgious views is the spirit of the times. This is particu larly true in the Northwest because its citizens Include the broader-minded and more progressive classes. Re ligious dogmatism is consequently less pronounced than in the older com munities of the East and the oppor tunity for federation is corresponding ly greater. That the splitting up of the Christian church into a great num ber of denominations has been and continues to be one of its greatest handicaps is self-evident and every ef fort to combine and strengthen these disintegrated forces is deserving of encouragement and support. "UNITED WE STAND" For several weeks there has appear ed in both local papers a small space, the contents of which have no doubt appeared enigmatical to those who have noticed it . In the center ap pears the cut of an apple and beside it the statement "United we stand; divided we fall." This insertion was made by a local rancher who desired that it appear thus anonymously. He did not di vulge his motive further than to in dicate that he wished to sow a seed. The fact that the picture of the apple is included leads one to conclude that tha advice given refers to the apple industry and. Indeed, it might truth fully refer to that industry through out the Northwest, from which section Is shipped a large proportion of the boxed product. Whether it could not refer with equal force to the Hood River Valley Is a question which might also be asked. It Is conceded that the standard varieties of the Hood River Valley, are to a considerable extent, exclusive products on account of the far-reaching reputation which this valley baa achieved. During tha past year the number of local shipping associations has been materially increased. Insofar as this j has made possible Increased storage facilities and other shipping advanta ge It baa been of material benefit, but to the extent that it has Increased ! competition in marketing local fruit the natural tendency has been to reii der buyers more Independent. Adop tion of standard (trailing rules offset this disadvantage to so.iie extent and has worked out satisir.ctorily. It is conceded that it was a step in the right direction aud every grower and association has benefited in propor tion as he has observed these rules. Further co-operation between the as satiations, so far as consistent, to the end that the price as well as the grade of Hood River apples may be main tained, is a further benefit which the future may bring about. LINCOLN WOULDN'T BE SAFE An Abraham Lincoln anecdote which has just been printed by the New York Mail would lead one to be lieve that the martyred president would not have been deemed a desir able citizen in some of tha Western towns which will not countenance ev en a breath of criticism against their "city." The story says that Lincoln had occasion, while he was secretary of the State of Illinois, to answer an application of a certain minister to deliver a lecture in the hall of the house of representatives at Spring field. "What is the subject of the lecture?" asked Lincoln. "The Sec ond Coming of Our Lord." answered the man. "No use here,"said Lincoln "you'll only be wasting your time. If the Lord has been in Springfield once he will never come the second time. THE DALLES WOMEN SET PACE Women of The Dalles are setting the pace for their recently-enfranchis ed sisters throughout the state. Al though they are not going to have an opportunity to vote until city election next June, the Equal Suffrage League holds weekly meetings, at which civic subjects are studied, and the Sorosis the oldest woman's club in the city has taken up the study of laws. As a Christmas suggestion local husbands might get their better halves a set of Blackstone or Lord's Oregon Laws thereby making sure that her stocking will be well filled on Christmas morn ing. Talking about health insurance, why wouldn't a few boxes of Hood River apples in the cellar make a pret ty good policy? WANTS CHILDREN TO RAISE POULTRY Believing that the children of Hood River cannot begin too early to pre pare for the county industrial fair to be held next year, County Superin tendent C. D. Thompson announces that poultry will be made one of the specialties at the show. He will co operate with State Superintendent Al derman in this matter and quotes the advice of the latter for the benefit of Hood River school children as fol lows : "If you would catch a train start in time. No matter how- fast you run if you start too late. If you would win a prize in the school children's indus trial contest next year, begin now. Parents, if you would have your chil dren grow up to be industrious, law abiding, useful citizens, winners in the race of life, start them early in the right direction. "While it is not the intention to slight any of the other lines of activ ity taken up this year, it is the plan to make poultry-raising the leading feature of the school children's con test the coming year. There is scarcely a boy or girl In city, village or country, but what could take care of a few chickens or ducks without interference with their school or oth er work. It costs the state about $9.60 a pupil each year to carry on our public school system, and it Is our ambition to have the school chil dren increase the production of poul try and eggs enough to cover that ex pense. Children, wouldn't you be proud to be able to say "It doesn't cost the state anything to educate us. We pay the bill with our chickens and eggs?" The result is easily possi ble, and to reach it each school boy and girl would only have to keep a few- fowls. I do not know of anything that would attract more favorable mention to Oregon than the fact that all her school children are raising poultry and producing thereby more than enough wealth to meet the expense of the public school system." Heights Garage Automobile Supplies General Repairing of All Kinds of Gasoline Engines - Diamond Tires Plumbing.... J. F. Volstorff - gjs SOUTHWEST LEARNS SOME LESSONS HERE Charles W. Holman, representing "Farm und Ranch," a magazine pub lished at Dallas, Texas, recently vis ited Hood River to study the methods of apple selling here. A couple of ar ticles have appeared in the magazine and an extract from one of them fol lows: "The secret of apple selling? Here it Is: Build a confidence in your pro duct as we have In ours. Establish your trademark. Make it mean some thing Hit the ball! "Have the right kind of salesmen to push your orchard wares. Make your advertising punch hard. Put consci entious work upon the apple from or chard to car. "You've got to begin with the idea of quality, and you will end with the same idea plus equal distribution. To have either or both requires an organ ization." The above was the substance of Manager Sieg's message to South western growers through Farm and Ranch. Mr. Sieg is the Jovial, hust ling head of the Hood River Apple Growers' Union up in Oregon. His group of growers are perhaps the best equipped with the instruments of mar keting and the facilities for storing of any co-operative selling agency in the Northwest. Our conversation took place just after the Northwest apple crop had begun to move. Every avail able worker in the fruit valleys was "hitting the ball," for the apple crop, in the phrase of a Southern darky, was "jes' reahin' to go." Every little while an assistant laid telegrams upon the managers desk. The phone at his elbow rang constant ly. While he talked he dispatched the business of his position with celer ity and ease. A less competent man would have "gone in the air," but Sieg kept as clear a head as the city editor of a metropolitan daily. We were on the firing line of the Northwestern ap ple campaign, and something was do ing all the time. "If you want to know anything else, fire away," said Sieg. "Do your selling methods differ from those private sales agents I mean in finding markets?" The Hood River man leaned back in his chair with pursed lips. Before answering he opened three telegrams and called a clerk to whom he gave in structions. Then he began: "To that question I will have to answer both 'yes' and 'no.' We are doing business to make money. So are the private sales agents. The dif ference lies in who makes the money. In the Union all profits become saved expenses, after they exceed seven per cent, and "all growers share in this saving, according to the volume of their shipments. A private sales agent uses this profit or himself. If he cannot make a profit above the cost of selling he doesn't stay with the game. But a co-operative organiza tion has no particular reason for mak ing money for itself. Its mission is to do its work as cheaply as possible and sell its stuff as high as It can. A Guaranty-Pack and Ability to Store. "One of the great reasons why your fruit men in the SouthweBt don't get as much money for what you grow as we is that your disorganized condition makes it a sheer impossibility to guar antee your pack. Chaos in a produc ing region makes prejudice in the con suming. That in turn reacts upon competitive producers. The average grower doesn't realize that to bring In a few boxes, or barrels, of apples packed carelessly is selling goods un der false pretences. In this valley our growers have long realized that to bring in such box will mean Bure de tection. Detection will result in the Union repacking every box on his wagon under rigid supervision. We have made it expensive to put up in ferior packs. And your people must do the same." trouble WITH OLD MARNE5S A runaway may cause more than trouble: Serious injuries and sometimes death are the awful results. An old Harness is often responsible, but a new Harness with weak spots in it is just as bad. The kind we sell have NO WEAK 5 POTS You will tret your money's worth if you buy harness of us. R. G. YOWELL & CO. Bell Building- hood River, Or. "Vt - V. DIVIDED WE STAND '&t7 FALL R. R. B A RT LETT ARCHITECT Hsilbronnar Building HOOD RIVER. OREGON Phona 61 KELLY BROS. MAY and OATS Rolled Barley, Bran, Shorts and Straw Phona 327-M Fourth Street between Oak and Stata ROBT. T. NEWHALL Telephone 277-1 Bood llvir, Orcgoo REPRESENTING MILTON NURSERY CO. THIRTY-THREE YEARS OK RELIABLE TREES Wire Wound Continuous Stave WOOD STAVE PIPE KELLY BROS., Agents 4th St. Bet. Oak and State Phone 227-M Hood River, Ore C. G. VAN TRESS Public Stenographer AND Notary Public ELIOT BLOCK Phone 308-L W. J. BAKER Real Estate Loans Insurance APPLE AND STRAWBERRY LAND A SPECIALTY Correspondence Solicited WE FURNISH FRUIT PICKERS AND PACKERS And All Kinds of Employees... NIGUMA & CO. Phone 160 14 East Oak Street Hood River, Or. COAL! Rock Springs COAL TRANSFER & LIVERY COMPANY Cottage ftospi Hood River's Medical In stitution. Open to the public for the treatment of Medical and Surgical cases. Rates on applica tion. Address, COTTAGE HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION Kent & Garrabranf Confectionery, Cigars Fishing Tackle Spaulding's Sporting Goods All Kinds of Soft Drinks Oak Street, opposite Smith Block. Hood River NEW SCHEDULE .Tic tint Kood Railroad UNITED WE f Effective 12.-01 A. M. f Sunday. Sept. 8th 1912 No! 7 niTi : 8TAT1QN8 S no Lv. Hand River Ar. .lit 05 Powerriale t W 8 15 I Switchback t. Van Horn 1 10 8 40 Mnfrir t OS OS OWI 1 00 IS. ( Rummft 1 60 20 Hloucher - 1 43 4S Winans 1 S3 10 10 Iea 1 SO 10 IS Trout Creek 1 IS -.. 10 40 W or l worth 1 OS 10 46 Ar. Perkdale Lv. .. 1 On. J. F. WATT, M. D., Physician and Surgeon Ofllca. Hotna Phona tORea. SO-B Hood River :: Oregon Dr. M. H. Sharp Dr. Edna B. Sharp DRS. SHARP Osteopathic Physicians Craduates of tha American School of Osteopathy. Kirk. villa. Mo. Ofllca In fclkrt BuiMIn Phone-Oftice ML Reeiltnc 108- B. liuud Kiver. Orejioo E. D. KANACA Physician and Surgeon Office in National Bank Building Phona, Ofllca S5 Res. SS-B Hood River. Oregon H. L. DUMBLE Physician and Surgeon Calls promptly answered in town or country, day or niifht. Telephone-Residence 611. Office 613. Office in the Brasilia Building-. DR. E. O. DUTRO Physician and Surgeon Office in Smith Building Hour. 1 to 4 p. m. by appointment phone 71 Kea. Lewis House. Udell Phone Odell ltt Calls promptly answered in country day or night DR. MALCOLM BRONSON Physicians and Surgeons Eliot Block Phona 34 . Hood River. Oregon C. H. JENKINS, D. M. D. Dentist Ofllca. Hall Building, oyer Butler Banking Co. Office phone 28. Residence phone 28-B Hood River, Oregon H. Dudley W. Pinco, D. D. S. Dentist Ofllca 4, t and (. Smith Bldg. Ofllca-Home phona 131. Residence- Home 131-B Hood River, Oregon DR. JUSTIN WAUGH Eliot Building EAR, EYE, NOSE AND THROAT M. E. WELCH Licensed Veterinarian Hood River, Oregon JOHN BAKER Attorney at Law Rooms 7-8, Smith Block Ofllca phone 168-K Hood River, Ore. House phona STEARNS & DERBY Lawyers First National Bank Building Hood River, Oregon Phona 309 Rooms 9-10, Smith Block GEORGE R. WILBUR LAWYER loori IJIver Oregon ERNEST C. SMITH LAWYER Rooms 14 and 15. Hall Building Hood River. Oretron L. A. & A. P. REED ATTORNEYS & COUNSELLORS AT LAW Two Doors North of Postofllce Phone 41 Hood River' Oregon MURRAY KAY CIVIL liNOINELR AND SURVEYOR Phoni S3 BgoBius Building Hood Rivia L. A. HENDERSON Surveyor and Civil Engineer Formerly U. 8. Land Surveyor Philippine Islands Two doors north of poatofflce. Phone 41 P. M. MORSE City Engineer and Surveyor CITY AND COUNTY WORK Heilbronner Building Hood River. Oregon A. C. BUCK Notary Public and Insurance Agent Room 12. Brasilia Block Hood River, Oregon C. M. HURLBURT SURVEYOR Telephone 3342-M ALBERT SUTTON Hrchitcct Oregon Lumber L WHOLESALE and RETAIL LARGE Band Sawed Lumber on Hand WHICH WILL BE SOLD AT REASONABLE FIGURES CEDAR POSTS CEDAR SHIP LAP and SHINGLES Estimates Furnished. Call on Either Phone DEE, OREGON Hood River Banking & Trust Co. Extends a cordial invitation to you, personally to call and open a checking account. Any amount will open an account in our savings department. We pay 3 per cent interest, compounded semi-annually. We promise the best of service and satisfaction. M. M. Hill, W. W. Remington, R. W. Pratt, President, Vice President, Cashier 1 C. H. Stranahan, Capital $100,000 FIRST NATIONAL BANK HOOD RIVER, OREGON FASHION Livery, Feed Stank?- Wholesale and ' Retail Lumber. dtxt4-ix Lath, Shingles OlTlUD Etc. Lumber delivered to FlimhV anypartof the JvUI,lwr Valley Co, 03c arc now talung ordcro for Hpplc StanCey-Smitl'i um(3er Co. Mood livr, Oregon Pften. 134 STOCK OF Wilson Fike Saw Surplus $30,000 SETTLE WITH A CHECK aud you will never have any trouble about payments mailt. The check is at once a receipt and a voucher. Open an account with The First National Dank and get a check book. Even if your transactions are small it Is all the more reason why you should not risk having to pay twice as you do with currency. STABLES and Draying STRANAHANS & RATHBUN HUOD RIVER, OREGON Horses bought, sold or ex changed. Pleasure parties can secure first class rigs. Sbecial attention given to moving fur- DlLlrea1 P'anos. We do every thinghorses cando. A. WILSON, Agent. Ball Buildino Hood Rivbb, Okboon I